All these posts about AI giving apparently wrong answers are actually people under-specifying their questions:
- you can glue cheese to a pizza if you want (you didn't specify that the pizza should still be safe to eat)
- you can eat any type of mushrooms (for some of them, you may die, but that's after eating them)
- you can safely jump off a plane without a parachute (if the plane is not flying)
finding and fixing that kind of ambiguity is exactly what software engineers do!
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